ATS arrests Naxal queen bee*By:* Ketan Ranga *Date:* 2011-04-28 *Place:* Mumbai
*Wanted since 1996, 42-yr-old was spreading Naxal ideology in Surat, Pune, Mumbai and Thane* For 15 years she managed to hoodwink the police and went about her operations in the state. Not only did she keep changing her locations frequently, she also went about under several aliases. To some students in Mumbai she was known as Savita, to others she was Kavita, or Sunita. But no one seemed to know the real Anjali Sontakke (42), who was nabbed by the ATS from Thane. *Breakthrough:* ATS chief Rakesh Maria said Anjali Sontakke was looking after the Golden Corridor committee that was started by her in February 2008, based in Pune. Pic/Bipin Kokate Anjali had been spreading the Naxal ideology in the urban areas, and her name cropped by during the interrogation of several alleged naxal members arrested from Mumbai, including Arun Ferreira, from Bandra. Sources reveal that Anjali has been taking care of their finances, funding, medical assistance and providing a base to Naxals in Mumbai. She has been among the top rungs of the Maoists and was currently the secretary of the central committee for Maharashtra, while her husband Milind Teltumde is the head of the Maharashtra committee of CPIM Maoists. Rakesh Maria, Maharashtra ATS chief, said, "Now she was on the job of spreading the naxal ideology in the urban areas. She was looking after the Golden Corridor committee that was started by her in February 2008 with a base in Pune. This committee considered of the urban places like Surat, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Pune and Thane. The job was to spread the ideology here, especially to the students and the labourers." "There are 20 cases against her, which also includes the ambushing 15 policemen on February 1, 2009 between Gyarapati and Markegaon. She has been staying in Pune since 2008," added Maria. Anti naxal units, the ATS and other police units had been on her trail since 1996, however, she managed to always stay a step ahead of them. On a number of occasions the anti-naxal units from Gadchiroli have searched her hideouts in Mumbai, but returned empty handed. *Education* Anjali is a highly qualified woman and was a teacher at Chandrapur, before shifting base to Mumbai. She has done a BSC in Micrology, MSC in Zoology, B.ed and MA is sociology. Her last degree was from Mumbai University, while she was a front for naxal operations here. *Other arrests* The ATS has also arrested her assistant, who joined her one and half year back. Sushma Remteke (27) alias Shradha Gurav alias Arti. She was arrested from Lavasa road, after Anjali was arrested from Thane on April 25. Police had recovered Rs 3 lakh from Remteke and Rs 1.5 lakh from Anjali. A laptop, number of CDs and a huge amount of naxal literature has been recovered from them. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Top-woman-Naxal-cadre-picked-up-from-Thane/articleshow/8094312.cms Top woman Naxal cadre picked up from Thane MUMBAI: The state Anti-Terrorist Squad<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/search?q=Anti-Terrorist+Squad>(ATS) netted a big Naxal fish on Monday when Anjali Sontakke <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/search?q=Anjali+Sontakke>, alias Angela, was arrested in Thane and produced at the Mazgaon court on Tuesday. Anjali is the wife of Deepak Teltumbde, secretary of the state committee of the Communist Party of India<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Communist-Party-of-India>(Maoist) and herself its member. Her arrest only re-establishes the fact that Naxals are not restricting themselves to rural areas but have spread their tentacles to cities and metros too. A couple of months ago, Sudhir Dhawale, a front organization member who was nabbed in Wardha, was found to be a resident of the Babasaheb Ambedkar Railway Hospital nurses quarters in Byculla. Mumbai<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mumbai>and its suburbs are increasingly being used by the rebels to spread their ideology. ATS sources said that several incriminating documents and literature have been seized from the place where Anjali was nabbed. They claimed that she had nearly 20 offences registered against her. Anjali had begun as a member of a front organization following which she graduated into the mainstream of the arms struggle. She was currently working as an urban cadre and trying to garner support and make recruitments. Following her arrest, search operations were jointly undertaken by security and intelligence agencies at different places in Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Nagpur, Vidarbha and other places in western Maharashtra. Anjali, who had a degree in teaching, is learnt to have joined the movement at Ballarshah in Chandrapur in the early 90s. She is also known by other names like Kavita, Sunita Patil, Iskara and Rama. From the mid-90s, Anjali had gone underground. Her husband Deepak is the secretary for North Gadchiroli, Gondia and Balaghat division. Security sources also claimed that they had records of Anjali working with the Dewri and Khobramenda dalams in the North Gadchiroli, Gondia and Balaghat division. She had apparently also received training in Dandakaranya at the Naxal stronghold of Abhujmarh which straddles Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh. After Anjali's arrest, which has dealt a blow to the already wobbling state committee, the ATS is now set its sights on nabbing Deepak, Golden Corridor committee head Seema Hirani, Venu and his wife. The arrests of Chandramouli Oge, alias Madanlal, and Shantanu Kamble in 2005 followed by the netting of Ashok Satya Reddy, alias Murli, and Arun Thomas Ferriera along with two others in 2007 had already robbed the momentum from the rebels' movement in the state as well as some parts of Gujarat. It was further weakened when Mumbai ATS arrested Shreedhar Shrinivasan, alias Vishnu, and Vernon Gonsalves, alias Vikram, in 2007. Surya Dewra Prabhakar, alias Sunil, another active Naxal underground cadre, too also nabbed by the Mumbai ATS last year. -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the predecessors of Hitler did, else how is it that Germany always had the lists of Jewish names even prior to the arrival of the Nazis? 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